Exclusive: Romney up ONE POINT in Ohio and TIED in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to his campaign's internal polling — If the figures hold true Romney will almost certainly become the 45th President of the United States — Mitt Romney is ahead by a single percentage point in Ohio …

Romney 49%, Obama 48% in Gallup's Final Election Survey — Early voting so far breaks 49% for Obama and 48% for Romney — PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are within one percentage point of each other in Gallup's final pre-election survey of likely voters …

A tie for Obama and Romney in nation's first results — The first presidential election results are in - and it's a tie. — President Barack Obama and his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, each received five votes in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire. — The town in the state's northeast corner …

Election overtime: A winless Wednesday? — Could the presidential race go into overtime? — It turns out the unnerving prospect of an election that drags on for days — or even weeks — past Election Day isn't as far-fetched as it sounds. — Between the possibility of recounts …

Crush Them — Conservatives have a rare opportunity tomorrow to do something they signally failed to do in the landslide elections of 1972 and 1984: finish the job. Nixon's victory was vitiated by Watergate and quickly revenged by Woodward and Bernstein, leading to his replacement in 1974 by Jerry Ford …

The Mistake That Is the Libertarian Party — Voting the LP line could swing the election to the Democrats. That's not an outcome libertarians should hope for. — In 1972, the Libertarian Party nominated University of Southern California philosophy Prof. John Hospers as its first presidential candidate …

New Congress Likely to Frustrate Obama or Romney — No matter who is elected president, he's likely to find that the next Congress will remain what the current one has been for President Barack Obama — a headache. — Months of speeches, saturation TV advertising, uncountable events …

Monday Morning — We begin with the three words everyone writing about the election must say: Nobody knows anything. Everyone's guessing. I spent Sunday morning in Washington with journalists and political hands, one of whom said she feels it's Obama, the rest of whom said they don't know.

Live-blogging the final presidential debate of 2012 — I'll say anything I have to say about tonight's presidential debate, which you can watch live online, in this post. — I'll be writing down any quotes on the fly, without the aid of a transcript or pause/rewind button.

Briton Killed in China Had Spy Links — A Wall Street Journal investigation has found that murdered Briton Neil Heywood provided information about the family of ousted Communist Party leader Bo Xilai. The WSJ's Jeremy Page reveals what Heywood may have been up to in China.

Why 2012 turned small — The 2012 election is over at last, and its supporting cast—a complex of operatives and reporters, locked in an embrace of mutual need and mutual contempt, an audience of millions, at once transfixed and repelled—is gasping at the finish line, collapsed in a heap.

Obama Returns to Iowa for Nostalgic Finale — DES MOINES, Iowa—President Barack Obama finished his second presidential campaign where he began his first, in Iowa, the state that propelled him out of the caucuses and toward the Democratic nomination and ultimately the White House.

CBS under fire for withholding Obama's Benghazi remarks — CBS News is continuing to draw fire for withholding footage of a Sept. 12 interview with President Barack Obama in which he said it was “too early to tell” whether or not the previous day's attack in Benghazi, Libya, had been an act of terror.

In Ohio, Polls Show Benefit of Auto Rescue to Obama — We conclude our Presidential Geography series, a one-by-one examination of each state's political landscape and how it is changing, with Ohio, the Buckeye State. FiveThirtyEight spoke with Herb Asher and Paul A. Beck …

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